Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1996, 10:00 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 1996, 10:00 PM MDT (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1996, 11:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 10:10 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Fountain, CO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1690 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 6:17 PM MDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
COZ071>073-076>081-250500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 617 PM MDT WED JUL 24 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EL PASO...EASTERN PUEBLO...CROWLEY...OTERO...KIOWA...BENT...PROWERS...EASTERN LAS ANIMAS AND BACA COUNTIES. IF YOU ARE IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA...KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND LISTEN RFOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS OVER NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR FROM YOUR LOCAL MEDIA. TLM
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 7:18 PM MDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
COZ062-063-250210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 718 PM MDT WED JUL 24 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER GREAT SAND DUNES... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM...BRING HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH DIAMETER...GUSTY WINDS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...WILL MOVE OVER THE GREAT SAND DUNES THROUGH 730 PM. BY 800 PM THIS STORM WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST TO NEAR BLANCA PEAK. PERSONS NEAR THE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD ALSO BE PREPARED FOR DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. WOLYN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 6:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 89 min |
| Jul 24, 6:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 46 min |
| Jul 24, 7:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 60 min |
| Jul 24, 7:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 61 min |
| Jul 24, 9:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 49 min |
| Jul 25, 2:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 35 min |
| Jul 25, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 34 min |
| Jul 25, 5:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 64 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.